ISSUE 01: ON MONSTERS, COASTLINES, AND DESIRE

Excited to announce our collaboration with Glotta — a new literary magazine emerging from Hydra Island edited by Hunter Dukes, forthcoming writer in residence @libraryresidency

Dive into the debut issue: a 104-page voyage through seaweed erotics, Neanderthal handprints, Byzantine vampires, and floral typography — a perfect summer read for islanders.

📍 HYDRA LAUNCH: Join us & friends at the Old Carpet Factory on 22 June with publisher Dimi Vourakis and editor @hunter_dukes with #EkaterinaJuskowski @juskowski @Josh Hickey @joshuaphickey #TheHydraBookClub

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Issue 01 of Glotta! Come celebrate at @ocfstudio with #DimiVourakis @sozitagood #HydraEcologicalAssociation #HydraEcologists @hydrabookclub #jeromeK #sashaarchibald @isaacdisraeli @performingseale @meco.network @thenystranger #GrahamDBurnett #nicholashumphrey #markelloschryssicos @lucianthesatirist
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Under the Auspices and support of the Greek Ministry of Culture @minculturegr

Glotta: On monsters, coastlines and desire

English words like “glossary” and “polyglot” reach back to the Ionic Greek glossa and its Attic cousin glotta — the physical tongue, but also language. And there was perhaps no greater poly-glot in the Ancient Greek world than that fearsome lake serpent known as the Hydra, who possessed a seemingly infinite supply of heads filled with forking, sibilant tongues.

Luckily nothing so treacherous dwells on this fair isle, and our “Hydra” has little to do with the beast: only that both were named after a Greek word for water. Yet it’s nevertheless wise to remember that the etymology of monstrum (from which “monster” descends) suggests “that which reveals.” To talk about monsters is to uncover own fears, dreams, and desires.

Why tell you this? You probably bought this magazine to browse on Avlaki beach, as reading material to quiet the mind on its inevitable slide toward a delicious summer nap. It can be that too — and you should do that still. But perhaps also allow yourself to remember that coastlines are where hybrid forms like the Hydra are wont to dwell . . . in those choppy transitions between land and sea, firmness and indistinction, wakefulness and sleep.

Glotta is a new annual magazine. Each issue will weave together three themes and disparate voices from the present and past. It’s a hybrid publication for a many-headed audience. We take the ancient paradoxographers as inspiration, their attention to miracles and marvels, the abnormal and inexplicable. We have no manifesto. Only a sense that the subterranean rivers of history flow closer to the surface than might initially appear. And that if you listen attentively, you can still hear the babble of their currents’ many tongues.

Editor: Hunter Dukes

Editor – in-residence, Hunter Dukes @hunter_dukes

Hunter is an editor, writer, bibliophile, and intellectual explorer whose work lives at the fascinating crossroads of books, art, history, and the hidden stories objects tell.

He is the managing editor of the legendary Cabinet Magazine @cabinetmagazine and The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev , and the founding editor of a new print magazine, GLOTTA, from the island of Hydra, Greece that also marks our collaboration with @hydrabookclub

His writing is a masterclass. He’s delved into everything from Amazon poetry to the erotic history of rocking chairs and the conservation of nightingales to the meaning behind our signatures (the subject of his first book!).

With a PhD from Cambridge & a background lecturing on literature, Hunter brings a profound depth to every topic he explores. His essays have illuminated the pages of the @artreview_magazine , the Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks @telegraph @theeconomist #HistoryToday #TimesLiterarySupplement among others

During his residency, Hunter will be delving into his research, and we can’t wait to see the new connections and stories he uncovers.

Explore more in his work via: https://www.hunterdukes.com/

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The Library Residency is a @greeceinus project under the Auspices and Support of The Greek Ministry of Culture @minculturegr
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With thanks to Greece in USA associate Dimitra Goutzou @ambi_blue_tamashi